OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

Two archives, queried live.

Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 12 shown for “Sri Hemchandra Das” — 42 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 17:35 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Kali and Jagaddhatri, by Sri Hemchandra Das

Kali and Jagaddhatri

Sri Hemchandra Das · ca. 1850–70

Public domainThe Met
Allophylus cobbe (L.) Forsyth f.

Allophylus cobbe (L.) Forsyth f.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Aug 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sword (Shamshir) with Scabbard and Belt

Sword (Shamshir) with Scabbard and Belt

Artist not stated in the record · hilt, scabbard, and belt, early 19th century; blade, A.H. 1162/1748–49 CE

Public domainThe Met
Hevea brasiliensis (Willd. ex A. Juss.) Müll. Arg.

Hevea brasiliensis (Willd. ex A. Juss.) Müll. Arg.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Mar 1977

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Doona venulosa Thwaites

Doona venulosa Thwaites

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 26/4/28

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Actinoscirpus grossus (L. f.) Goetgh. & D.A. Simpson

Actinoscirpus grossus (L. f.) Goetgh. & D.A. Simpson

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jun 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Actinoscirpus grossus (L. f.) Goetgh. & D.A. Simpson

Actinoscirpus grossus (L. f.) Goetgh. & D.A. Simpson

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Apr 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Actinoscirpus grossus (L. f.) Goetgh. & D.A. Simpson var. grossus

Actinoscirpus grossus (L. f.) Goetgh. & D.A. Simpson var. grossus

Artist not stated in the record · 1849

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Actinoscirpus grossus (L. f.) Goetgh. & D.A. Simpson

Actinoscirpus grossus (L. f.) Goetgh. & D.A. Simpson

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Oct 1974

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Actinoscirpus grossus (L. f.) Goetgh. & D.A. Simpson var. grossus

Actinoscirpus grossus (L. f.) Goetgh. & D.A. Simpson var. grossus

Artist not stated in the record · 9 May 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Actinoscirpus grossus (L. f.) Goetgh. & D.A. Simpson var. grossus

Actinoscirpus grossus (L. f.) Goetgh. & D.A. Simpson var. grossus

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Apr 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The poet Sundar Das before Emperor Shah Jahan, folio from a Sundar Shringar, by Attributed to Nainsukh (active ca. 1710-1778)

The poet Sundar Das before Emperor Shah Jahan, folio from a Sundar Shringar

Attributed to Nainsukh (active ca. 1710-1778) · ca. 1750-1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

Where these records came from.

Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.

  • The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field: isPublicDomain. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 104091 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 17:35 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.

Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.

An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.